On 9/1/25 10:54, Tom Lane wrote:
Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I did some digging in the code and see that the TOC is more then that,
it stores a range of data. Still have not part where the offsets are
ignored for writes to stdout, but will keep on digging.
The TOC is initially written out with zeroes for the offsets.
Then the per-table data parts are written out, tracking where
each one begins. At the end, if the output file is seekable,
pg_dump seeks back to the start and re-writes the whole TOC
section, now with data offsets populated. But output to a
pipe won't be seekable.
Got it, thanks.
regards, tom lane
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Adrian Klaver
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